Re: PATCH for guile-readline/Makefile.am

From:

Kevin Ryde

Subject:

Re: PATCH for guile-readline/Makefile.am

Date:

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:29:36 +1000

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Though that raises an issue that I haven't figured out how we want to
> handle yet. As above, autoconf now wants the package name and version
> to be literals. Hence our trick of using GUILE-VERSION and $PACKAGE
> and $VERSION won't work in this new arrangement.
You can generate a version argument using m4 esyscmd, patsubst,
whatever, if you like. Autoconf never knows it was an m4 expansion
and not a literal. :)
We get some joy with this in gmp, see GMP_VERSION in acinclude.m4
grepping gmp-h.in. (All copyright FSF of course, if you want to cut
and paste.)